the prophets209 have declared. Well then, these angels fell a-lusting after maidens and yielded to fleshly desires, and he, the chief of them,210 became heedless and wicked in the administration of his charge. Thus by those that went after maidens were the so-called giants begotten, and it is no marvel that an account, though incomplete, of the giants was told by the poets. Earthly wisdom differs from that of the prophets as a likely tale does from the truth; the one is earthbound and under the